Peter Dickson's important study of the origins and development of the system of public borrowing which enabled Great Britain to emerge as a world power in the eighteenth century has long been out of print. The present print-on-demand volume reprints the book in the 1993 version published by Gregg Revivals, which made significant alterations to the 1967 original. These included a new introduction reviewing recent work, and, in particular, 33 pages of detailed annotations and corrections, which, taken together, justified its status as a second edition.

Author: P. G. M. Dickson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/17/1993
Series: Sutton's Photographic History of Transport
Pages: 648
Weight: 2.37lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.38d
ISBN: 9780751200102

About the Author
P.G.M. Dickson is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of St Catherine's College. He is the author of a number of books and articles on aspects of eighteenth-century European financial history. His research has inspired a generation of historians and was celebrated in a festschrift edited by Christopher Storrs, 'The Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth-century Europe: Essays in honour of P.G.M. Dickson.'